Is lottery a good idea?These days, a lot of people play lottery and spend a certain amount of money on it while few of them earn back what they spend. Someone says lottery is a kind of tax collected by the government on peoples’ luck and desire to be rich. In another aspect, lottery is also gambling, and it could make people to be a millionaire in a night if the person is lucky enough, however, it has a negative effect that it causes inequality, crimes and so on. So lottery is not a positive idea to most of the lottery players and to the stabilization of the whole society. Lottery causes inequity. It is known that everyone always gets what one deserves and how much one gets depend on how hard one works. However, some may think lottery is equal to everyone as everyone has the same probability to win the first prize. Though there exists probability that one person may get the first prize and to be lucky enough to become a wealthy man in a night, the probability is so small. There is a lottery like this: the cost of ticket is 1 dollar, the persons have a probability of 1:10,179,260 to win the Grand prize which have 2 million dollars’ reward , and have a probability of 1:36,881 to win the Second prize which have 1000 dollars’ reward. Now, considering the number of 1:10179260 and 1:36881, we can see the probability is nearly close to zero and how lucky should a person is so that he/she can get such a big reward. Actually, though it is known that it is equal for everyone to win the prize, the probability to win is approximately equal to zero. Playing lottery is a waste of money, time and human energy, and it should be reduced so that the efficiency is reached. Some may believe that playing lottery is a cheap, easy way of making investment, which could not be known as a fault. I want to analyze this point in the following two aspects. Firstly, playing lottery is not a cheap way of making investment. Every ticket costs not much, but I want to take a calculation, if...

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...﻿Kristen Templeton
English 101
Dr. Jean Nienkamp
Unfair Lotteries
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...Is a Gambling a Good Idea?
Definition of Gambling
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Origin of gambling in the United States
The first lottery was held in the America by the Virginia Company with the permission of the Crown to raise money to finance the establishment of the Colony in 1612. The lotteries were relatively sophisticated and included instant winners. All the original 13 raised revenue through lotteries. The proceeds were used to establish Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Princeton, and William and Mary. Lottery funds were also used to build churches and libraries. Ben Franklin, John Hancock, and George Washington were all prominent sponsors of specific lotteries for public works projects.
Major Forms of Gambling
Casinos – these are places where people can place bets on games.
Lotteries – these are drawings in which people buy tickets. In this case a ticket number will be selected randomly whoever matches the tickets will be the winner of the cash prize. Most of the lotteries are held by the States.
Poker –According to Encarta World Dictionary is a “card game in which players attempt to acquire a winning combination of cards and bet at every deal” (Encarta).
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Ecosystems and Communities Chapter Test A
(removed questions on Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems)
Multiple Choice
Write the letter that best answers the question or completes the statement on the line provided.
_____ 1. How does an area’s weather differ from the area’s climate?
a. Weather involves temperature and preciapitation and climate involves only temperature.
b. An area’s weather depends on where it is located on Earth and the area’s climate does not.
c. An area’s weather does not change very much and an area’s climate changes many times.
d. Weather is the area’s day-to-day conditions and climate is the area’s average conditions.
_____ 2. The tendency for warm air to rise and cool air to sink results in
a. global wind patterns. c. the seasons.
b. ocean upwelling. d. regional precipitation.
_____ 3. An organism’s niche is
a. the range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way it obtains what it needs to survive and reproduce.
b. all the physical and biological factors in the organism’s environment.
c. the range of temperatures that the organism needs to survive.
d. a full description of the place an organism lives.
_____ 4. No two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time
a. because of the interactions that shape the ecosystem.
b. unless the species require different abiotic factors.
c. because of the competitive exclusion principle.
d....

...﻿The lottery
1) Look up the history of lotteries. Why did they originate and why?
Lotteries are a popular type of gambling most often run by governments and local states. The lottery includes multiple participants who compete and the winning person receives money as a prize most of the time. The chances of winning are very small and the winnings can be very high, about few millions.
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Why does the writer mention the pile of stones and how are they connected to the rest of the story?
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